I suppose like anything else, a text based interface lends itself better to
some things, but not others. Remember that the GUI was an experiment to see if
a computer could look and feel more like people think, because outside the
minority of geeks (as we were called back then and still are
On 9/17/10 5:17 PM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk
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I have to tell you, this is an experience to make you think and scratch
your head and think some more. If Apple were right, it should not work.
If Gnome were right, it should not work. And on day 1 it does not. But on
by curiosity, are you old enough to have lived the times where the controversy
in the unix world that was:
what is the best editor: vi or ed (hint: at that time, emacs did not exist)?
I have, and, as far as I am concerned, I avoid by any means available OSs that
make you feel like you are
get sick of it, you can flip to Gnome with a logout. Try it. But try it
for long enough to have that moment.
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The interesting thing about ion is that it makes you think really hard
about what is ease of use, what is user friendly, what about those famous
laws, the HIG, and the one about where your points of clicking ought to be
that I always forget the name of because I hate it so much. Here is how
